Melissa Ngo

Co-Designing Video Welcome Tours with Children in Paediatric Healthcare

Best practices in sharing information with children is scarce in a healthcare environment, and there is limited literature that involves children as co-designers of their own information. To demystify the hospital space for child clients and their families, a co-design project was conducted and designed with two research questions: (1) How can paediatric hospitals produce meaningful information designed by children, for children? (2) What are some best practices for co-designing with children with disabilities in healthcare settings? This study’s aim was to produce a video tour of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital that is co-designed by children in the disability community, for children in the disability community. The ability to assess the co-design process reflexively helped to identify practices that can inform and guide similar paediatric co-design in the future. The need for projects that are co-created and accessible online have risen. Co-created healthcare projects that centre the voices of the young disability community are feasible, applicable, and impactful, and this population should not be overlooked or unrecognized. Through this study, a template and resources are provided for healthcare systems to easily implement their own unique co-design sessions with young participants. http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3508/